and Federico Mena, both have cool contributions to libre software.

I assume Microsoft hired that guy, because they started to be more towards Open Source and Linux.

In February 2016, Xamarin announced being acquired by Microsoft.[14] One month later at the Microsoft Build conference, it was announced that the Mono Project would be relicensed to MIT, Visual Studio would include Xamarin (even the free versions) without restrictions, and Xamarin SDKs would be opensourced.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#GNOME,_Ximian,_Xamarin_and_Mono

the gnome foundation, however, is a u.s. organization, based in california.

True, it became an international citizen like all libre software. Im just proud that it was born in Mexico, in Latin America not much public recognition is had for local software. There's a perception that most services are from abroad. Thats why i phrased the original post title like that (cross posted). More like a "if it had a nationality, it would be mexican" kinda thing.

Miguel is out of GNOME for many years.

They put the foot down.